Boris Johnson Vows to Purge Rebels

“Boris Johnson has dramatically escalated the Conservative civil war on Brexit by threatening to purge some of the party’s biggest beasts — including former chancellor Philip Hammond — unless they back him in a key Brexit vote on Tuesday,” the Financial Times reports.

“The UK prime minister has warned Conservative rebels they will be stripped of the party whip and banned from standing as Tory candidates at the next election if they do not back his tough line on Brexit.”

“By throwing rebel MPs out of the parliamentary party Mr Johnson would be surrendering his slender House of Commons majority of one, increasing the likelihood of an early general election.”

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